Dispensing station



March 29, 1932 H. Du P. BALDWIN ET AL 1,851,535

DISPENSNG' STATION Filed Oct. 22, 1929 2. Sheets-Sheet l March 29, 1932.

H. DU F. BALDWIN ET AL DISPENSING STATION Filed Oct. 22, 2 Sheets-Sheet IHM '. fa/fard.

Patented Mar. 29, 193,2`

WED ST -PATJ'E NT' 50i-Fic? I 4tom of an ice chamber 16,

HENRY DU PONT rBALDWIN AND v n, CAROLINA, AssIGNoRs ,To SOUTHERN 4"CL,EiviuNr "STAFFORD, orv nEnNsBoRoNoiiTH PUBLIC siinvrcn COMPANY, Yor GnnnNsBOzaof NORTH CAROLINAA CORPORATLONOF 1jELAWARia` LISPENSING STATION i" Animation inea oetgiier 22,' 19,29. seriai No. 401,414...

' This invention relates to wayside stations .whereat merchandise isjdispensedto 4c ustomers, usually motor vehicle travelers.` p The obj ect of the invention is vto provide a dispensing station which includesan n ice chamber from which ice may be dispensed or retailed, and a-coolingchamberroooled by ice in the ice chamber and adapted tocontain and cool refreshments," such asibottled liquids, and permit the convenient dispensation or` retailing thereof. f l i Y Of the accompanying drawings forminga part of this speciiication;` 1 A f Figures 1, 1a and 2 are elevational views of a dispensing station 'embodying the in-v vention.

' Figure 3 is a section on-line`3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Figure2. n ,l Y y i i Figure 5` is a fragmentary sectional view.V The same reference characters indicate the saine parts in all of the figures. i x

Our improved dispensing station comprises a heat-insulating casing having upright side walls 12, a top wall 13,and a bottom wall14, the casing being to be used inthe open. f f, l

Said walls are of heat insulating-construction,v 'and` each'may includeV inner and outer layers which may be 4woodengboards, and an intermediate layerl vof g heat insulating `mateL rial, such as corkl board. Y

Fixed within the casing is` anl icerpanfl, preferably oi sheet steel and forming the botcoolingchamber 17. The pan may be supported by horizontal stringers 18 fixed `to opposite sidewalls of thebas'ing, and is fo-rmedto permit downward flow of ice cooled air from the ice chamber to thecooling chamber, edge portions spaced from the side walls of the casing to provide air passages 19 and 19a sho-wn by Figures 3 and 4.

' @ne of the side walls 12 cooling chamber doorways said doorways being called having doors 21, delivering door-V ways and adapted to permit removal from theV cooling chamber of portable containers 22,

weatherproof V`and adapted lbottoni of thefcooling chamber Aandi is prof f vided with tracks for'horizontally guiding and the top of the of the pan beingA is provided with such as the boxes or which-bottled liql uids are customarily delivered to customers.

p i `The opposite. side wall 1,2 is provided with container-receiving :doorways having l. doors 26 (Figure the receiving doorwaysypermitting insertion of containers "in thecoollng said containers On chamber-'and movement of the' guidingmeans to force other contain-ers throughV the delivering 'doorways Onto-the y Vcontainer-supporting doors 2,1.V n i `One `of theV intermediate side walls 12 is provided with an ice'chamber doorwayhav.- inga doorj20, said doorway being to from theice-chamber. .n

T he doors 2lfare provided with means adapted permit insertion and removal of icefin and 4 whereby they may behorizontally supported, l when opened, to support containers 22 dis- Y placed from the coolingV chamber, asl indi;-

cated by Figureu3, the doors 214 in this instance being connected by horizontal hinges l2,3witha casing wall 12'a`nd adapted toswing outward and downward to the'horizontal pOsition-sh'ownfby Figure 3, the doors being horizontally supported `when openedfiby braces ,24.5 f

`The bottomwall ofthe chasing formsthe` ,l

containers'22 in predetermined paths relative to the supporting doors 21. f f Y @To permit a return iiow of airthe upper portion of the` ice. chamber 16,\we

provideione` end of theicefpan `15V with an j i' Y l p fromthe` upper. portion of the cooling chamber 17 to upstanding baiiie wall 25l (Figure 4) spaced from the adjacent side wall12. Said baifie wall glimits the/entrance oi' ice into the fice plurality ofportable' bottom wall,

We refer to` embod the container-Unid?. I' i p y n and to guide said containers inpredetermined Y paths 'relative to the 7 container-supporting doors :21, so thata ,container pushed alonga 'pairof guide rails toward a-door 21, will ave its outer end portion deposited onthe upper surface of theidoor, as indicatedby supplied'iwitli'icle we provide a platform VFigure 3.

sidewall 12. containing 'the ice; chamber door `and below said door,

permit retailing of' ice withdrawn from the ice chamber. of,v a box-like structure, fromY the 4casing abovedescribed, and bea-ring loosely l on .thef ground or alfl'oor f-supporting thefcasing. Y

Theice pan provided with a dripppipe Y, 529,adapted1to `conduct Awaterfrom the pan v Y throughv the bottom wall 14; Y

Thev casingmay V30,' which' 'may proJect forward to form' 1a y shelterover-the platform-28. l The casingumay be'suppor-t d, with its bottomf'wall elevated 'abovethe ground, by an openworkfbase structure 31; Itis obvious that the coolingchamb'ermay-contain one orV more tracks, threeV tracks beingv shown in the support two or-more containers-22 when the present instance, each track being formed to vcooling. chamberrdoors are closed. 'The loca- :the Cooling ,4'0"c0oledarticlessupported byfa door-21; Y Ay1. A dispensing Y' .p weatherproof heat insulating casing adapte for use in the open, l Y,sulating upright side walls,

tion "of the ice doorway, closed bythe door 20,

v in aside wallintermediate the walls containing the receiving and delivering'openingsfof chamber, permits ice -to .bey inserted in and iretailed lfrom the icechamber without-interference lwith the retailing-of andincluding` heat ina bottom wall, and subdivided to l form anf ice chamber and Ya cooling chamber .belowlfth ice chamber,a horizontal track onithebottom of they-cooling chamber eXtending-fromend to end of said chamber, areceiving doorway v in one-of the side' walls o0mm'unicatingy with one VendA of said track, a delivering? doorway inthe Vopposite side rwall communicatin "with .ftracln'doorsfra apted the door of. {thedezontal hinges with the lower endof saidldoor ways, means for horizontally supporting the door of the delivering Vdoorway sothat said door, when opened, constitutes an,r external extension of saidtraclg'anzice doorway in an Y v intermediate side wall communicating with the ice. chamber, and a door'adapted to vclose the'ice doorway, the track being proportioned to support and permit the 'sliding-of a' plurality ofv cooled articlecontainers which. vare "door ofsaid doorway, r doorway in an intermediate wall permitting' Yto be` conveniently,v 'ice to be nsertedin and retailedfroni'the 28, located beside the.v

to support,andr-k latingi'ipright sides-walls, bottom wall, and chamberanda cooling chamber below *theV rlhe platform; l28 .iiaayz` be the-atop formed separately stationY comprisingA a L Vretailing of cooled articles Ytoa customer, Y location of the ice doorwayin an intermediate movable, withtheir charges, through the-.receiving and delivering doorways, rangement being such vthat one container may be moved throughthe delivering doorway and supported in retailingV position' byv the .opened the location of the'ice icek chamberl without interference with Vthe retailing of cooled articles.v

2; A dispensing lstation "comprising, Y al and including heat :insua top wall, and a subdivided to form an ice for use in the open,

ice chamber, a horizontal'trac'k on thebottom of the cooling'chamber extending fromfend to end of said chamber, va receivingdoorway in one Vvof Ethe fside walls communicating with one end` of said track, a delivering doorway" containers adapted to slide on the track and movable, with their charges, through the re'-V ceiving and delivering doorways, the contain the arl weatherproof heat insulating-casing adapted v vin the opposite sidewall communicating with n V aol ers being sov proportioned that-two -or more y may be supported on the trackfwhen the cooling chamber doorsr'are closed, vand one may door `the the be supportedoutside the casing bythev ofthe delivering doorway in position for pushed alongthe 'track from' the receiving Y doorway. v Y 1 n Intestimony'whereofwe'haveaiiiized signatures.' l f f fr f1 HENRYDU PONT 'Bi/.51LDVVI1\T.y

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